Chromium 67 update – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1.16.1221.3

Hadden89

@ruario Testing
Seems We can't drop .crx on extensions page anymore.
Unpacked works.

For hidden matter, an idea could be

Minimize extension (move to the toggle)
Hide extension (but it needs patching vivaldi://extension)

Well, I'll unhide any extension before update. Thanks for pointing that out.

Christoph142

@lonm: Yes, me too.

Pesala

When I move a tab to a new window, it is set to "Use Native Window," although that is not my setting in the current window.

If I enter preferences to uncheck the option, close the window, then reopen it, the Window title bar is gone.

Specs: AMD A10-6800K, 8 Gb on Win 10 64-bit •Snapshot 1.16.1221.3 (64-bit)

LonM

For anyone, like me, who likes to keep an eye on vivaldi://flags, I've got a list of changes:

Removals:

Manual Password Saving
experimental canvas features
Permission Action Reporting
Permissions Blacklist
Distance field text
Requiring user gesture for the Vibration API
Feature Policy
Show the Google Pay logo in the Autofill credit card dropdown
Speculative Prefetch
Several chrome-specific omnibox flags
Keep a renderer alive for keepalive fetch requests
Enable Voice Search on the local NTP

These may have been removed because they're discontinued experiments or they were stabilised and enabled by default.

Additions:

WebRTC new encode cpu load estimator
Disable pushState throttling
Enable native notifications.
Site isolation trial opt-out
Previews Allowed
Desktop PWAs Link Capturing
Connect to Cast devices on all IP addresses
WebXR Gamepad Support
Experimental keyboard lock API.
WebRTC H.264 software video encoder/decoder
Enable Web Payments single app UI skip
Enable N-up printing
Native memory sampling profiler
Sample memlog allocations
Allow regional locales as display UI
Enable pixel canvas recording
Web Authentication Testing API
Viz Display Compositor (OOP-D)
Unified Consent
Simplify HTTPS indicator UI
Array.prototype.values ES6 method
Enable GPU AppContainer Lockdown.
Bundled Connection Help
Signed HTTP Exchange
Viz Hit-test Draw-quad version
PDF Isolation
Use PDF compositor service for printing
Autofill Dynamic Forms
Restrict formless form extraction
Views Cast dialog
Enable Supervised User Committed Interstitials
Increase input audio buffer size

I'm quite interested in Enable Native Notifications, but that doesn't seem to work quite yet.
Another one worth watching may be the Simplify HTTPS indicator UI which does away with the padlock on HTTPS pages, though vivaldi's UI doesn't seem to follow that yet.
Strict Site Isolation, previously available, is still broken, so I would recommend keeping turned off.
Enable Picture-in-Picture Still doesn't work, and just adds a disabled menu item to media controls
Unified Consent sounds interesting, but I'm not exactly sure what it does...

LonM

@luetage: You can get the extensions page back to the old one by visiting the flag vivaldi://flags/#enable-md-extensions and setting it to disabled.

luetage

@cqoicebordel Yeah, it's a problem with the chromium update, I'm aware. The current implementation is a workaround, but also buggy, as described below. Imo this needs a fix for stable, because the extension toggle loses its main functionality (toggling extensions) under certain circumstances. Chromium won't fix this for Vivaldi I'm afraid.

nutcracker

The extensions are all visible! By clicking the mouse I have the usual menu choice (hide/show) and with the correct indication (hide for those I had visible and show for those I had hidden) but when I try to change the switch status (hide/show) nothing happens! Every extension remains visible on my address bar! Am I doing something wrong?

craigmillar

I can no longer play videos on twitter - "We cannot play the video in this browser. Please try a different web browser." (1.16.1221.3-1 64 bit Ubuntu 16.04)

An_dz

@pesala: I think he's asking about Linux/Mac where you need some hacking to get it done.

@senja See this: https://gist.github.com/ruario/23da64c334e08e03fffc04a05bbcd567

luetage

@nutcracker Read my replies in the comments. What you can do is enable the extension toggle in vivaldi://settings/addressbar/, then you will be able to hide/show extension buttons again.

An_dz

@nutcracker: See the discussion above https://vivaldi.com/blog/snapshots/chromium-67-update-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-1-16-1221-3/#post-218271

luetage

@lonm: The problem is not the page, but the extension icon container, the toggle and its functionality. I have already fixed it with a mod. But I think this needs general fixing by Vivaldi for stable.

nutcracker

@luetage: Thanks a lot but...this is a very peculiar behavior: If I uncheck the 'Extensions toggle' in settings, then everything is OK with the visible extensions but if I want to make a hidden extension visible, I have to recheck the 'Extensions toggle' make the extension visible with the mouse and re-uncheck the 'Extensions toggle' to return to normal. I cannot see any show/hide choice in the extensions menu - there is only enable/disable and remove!

luetage

@nutcracker Show/hide can only be done with right mouse click on extension icon in address bar.

LonM

Is it intentional that double-clicking the vivaldi icon when in minimal ui mode, with the horizontal menu enabled should close the browser?

mossman

@senja I had a standalone install in my profile from day 1 of public release of Vivaldi. As soon as there was a split between stable/snapshot I installed the stable as the system default browser (so the other users also switched to Vivaldi) and continued with the snapshot as a test installation on the own profile.

This has always been possible!

luetage

@gwen-dragon Yeah, broken with unchecked extension toggle, working else. But that's the whole problem

Steffie

@senja

When will we be able to install stable and snapshot on same PC

Since 2015, for me.

Christoph142

@lonm: Well, the tooltip says "double click to close"...

Ruarí

Use this https://gist.github.com/ruario/4eecac838ebfd3a7a164b4f4ee850f30